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After spending several years touring the country as a stand up comedian, Ed Brayton tired of explaining his jokes to small groups of dazed illiterates and turned to writing as the most common outlet for the voices in his head. He has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Thom Hartmann Show, and is almost certain that he is the only person ever to make fun of Chuck Norris on C-SPAN.

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Keyes Site Pushes Sandy Hook Trutherism

Alan Keyes’ Renew America site is not just a birther site, it’s also now pushing the bizarre conspiracy theory that the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut were a false flag operation by Obama to push through gun control. This column by lunatic Laurie Roth lays out the case:

Even big dog, Glenn Beck and the Blaze, took on the Sandy Hook shooting back in January 2013. In his article, Beck attempted to refute every question rolling around on the internet. He didn’t answer my questions, nor has any other media. With all due respect for Glenn Beck who has shown great courage at times, he was wrong on calling those who question Obama’s missing birth certificate and lack of constitutional status to be president as “birthers.” He was just as wrong in calling those who notice the endless discrepancies with the “Sandy Hook event” as “truthers.” Shame on you, Beck. You know better.

On April 22, 2013, investigative journalist and regular on my national radio show, Sher Zieve, did a 2-hour special on this subject and looked at real questions that Glenn Beck and the media have simply not answered. If you want to listen to the special, go to www.therothshow.com, and click on archives, hour 1 and 2, 4-22-2013. You look at the facts and make up your own mind. If there is a real problem with this event, however, also have the courage to ask “what does this mean and who could be behind this and why?”

Comments

The missing birth certificate thing is getting annoying. Obama has published both his own copy of his birth certificate (short form) and the relevant extract from Hawaiian state records (long form). What would they accept, a video of the birth narrated by Orly Taitz?

Hopefully the kook squad doesn’t stick their heads in here much. The thought came to mind that it’s surprising we don’t have an Obama’s birth “death list,” a list of everyone supposedly done in to hide the fact Obama wasn’t born in Hawaii.

If Sandy Hook was a false flag op to allow Obama to ram through gun control it hasn’t done much good, has it? I still think that if you really wanted to push gun control via evil p[lot you’d shoot some Republican senators. Just watch them fall all over themselves pushing new gun laws if they thought it would protect their asses.

I do have one small problem with calling these folk “truthers” — it doesn’t distinguish them from the 9/11 nuts. I suggest we start calling the 9/11 conspiracists “Towers” (or “towering idiots” for a longer form) and the Sandy Hook conspiracists “Hookers”.

These are the people who think there’s a significant difference between a “birth certificate” and a “certification of live birth,” or between an “act of terror” and a “terrorist attack.” I’m not sure they would accept anything that doesn’t fit into the storyline they’re trying to push at the moment.

@matty1 – I do think blf has the right track. The truth of the matter is that these wack-jobs have had their questions answered, but until someone in power officially states that their fantastical view of the universe is 100% true, they will simply not stop.

These idiots have always been with us, but they used to be ignored. Through a combination of the internet and a news media that shifted to purely entertainment, you get to hear about them a lot more frequently now.

“Lunatic Laurie Roth” is right. I also think the biblical word “wroth” applies; she is indeed wroth.

As for her nutty conspiracy about Obama seeking to take their guns away, that’s old stuff. But there does seem to be a resurgence of it, no doubt because of the recent effort to enact background checks.

…or maybe the false flag operation went in the exact opposite direction, to push through the end of gun-free zones (*rolls eyes*). Seriously, though do these people not realize that the ridiculous “false flag” meme can boomerang back on them?